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Yoshitomo Nara Too Young to Die #978387

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Yoshitomo Nara Too Young to Die #978387
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This quality porcelain dish featuring a young smoker and the phrase in raised lettering Too Young to Die, is based on Yoshitomo Nara's 2001 painting with the same title exhibited at the Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan. This large dish measures 10" diameter x 1.25" height. Reverse is signed in the glaze and marked Yoshitomo Nara 2002. Sealed box. <p> Born in Aomori, Japan, in 1959, Yoshitomo Nara is part of a generation of young Japanese artists whose works are primarily based in Japanese pop culture - manga (comics) and television animation. He combines high and low art by painting cartoon-like children with a skilled brush and a complex palette. Nara's children, influenced by comic book characters, are at once innocent and demonic. The big, rounded heads contain glaring eyes, and their bodies often take on a defiant stance. Roberta Smith of The New York Times states, (The paintings) undermine the tendency to idealize and infantilize children by suggesting that they are smarter, meaner and less unhappy than most grown-ups want to admit.&#39; Nara imbues the children with many dimensions and even varied interests, implying that they have a whole world of their own. This complexity packs humor, pain and charm in almost every image. <p> Nara has exhibited his work in Japan, Germany, the UK and the U.S. since 1984. He was featured in the recent critically acclaimed Museum of Modern Art, NY drawings exhibit, Contemporary Drawings: Eight Propositions (2002/2003). He is also included ...
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<tr><td>Title:Yoshitomo Nara Too Young to Die</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York</td></tr>
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